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They kill you with one bite, why is Australia the "home" of all poisonous species?

2023-11-27 23:43:00Lifestyle SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
They kill you with one bite, why is Australia the "home" of all
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Australia is home to a staggering number of poisonous creatures, from spiders and snakes to bees and plants. Have you ever wondered why exactly in Australia?!

100 million years ago the land of Australia separated from the southern continent of Gondwana. This is what the well-known professor of bioscience in Great Britain, Kevin Arbuckle, has declared. Meanwhile, he and other researchers have agreed on one point: Most of these venomous creatures are up to 3 times older than that.

For example, poisonous ants cause a lot of pain when they bite and are also found in other tropical or subtropical regions of the world, not only in Australia. The same applies to "Myrmecia" ants, which are known as the deadliest.

Hadronyche or Atrax spiders are found only in Australia and can kill people with just one bite. Another species of poisonous spider is "Latrodectus".

Likewise, poisonous cephalopods, which include squid, octopus and cuttlefish, existed in the waters as early as 300 million years ago.

Meanwhile, another researcher, Michael Lee, says that 60 million years ago when Australia moved to the South Pole, many reptiles disappeared. 40 million years later, he adds, the first snakes "colonized" the continent. The latter belonged to the "Elapidae" family, which includes cobras, mambas and taipans. Of Australia's 220 snake species, 145 are venomous.

As for jellyfish, every species is poisonous! They also date back over 500 million years and have been sailing the ocean since before Australia existed.

It is difficult to count how many poisonous creatures there are in Australia, but it is known for sure that there are more than we think and what surprises us even more is their diversity.


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